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AYIOS JAKOVOS / MELIA : CEMETERY MIDDLE BRONZE AGE

AYIOS JAKOVOS – MELIA

N° 12Town / Village : Ayios Jakovos / Altinova

District : Famagusta

DESCRIPTION :

Cemetery in the hills overlooking the Mesaoria and Salamis Bay.

Around 1575 BC., when it had already been in use for at least a century, it received some mass burials ; one tom had between twenty-four and thirty-four bodies. Had this come about through warfare or plague ?